Christian Boltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Am Mittwoch, 15. November 2006 11:13 schrieb Andreas Jaeger:
>> Christian Boltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > The only one I found (searching for "pattern taboo") is
>> > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=215355
>> > (current state is INVALID...)
>> >
>> > The "problem" is that marking a pattern as taboo does not mark the
>> > contained packages as taboo. The packages are "only" unselected and
>> > can be re-selected via dependencies (which happens with zmd).
>> >
>> > This is not the expected behaviour and can cause confusion -
>> > especially for the zenworks pattern which is probably the "top
>> > taboo" pattern ;-)
>>
>> It works now - the pattern magic in this case was a bit too involved,
>> the bug report is:
>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218492
>>
>> You can now deselect the pattern and install the other one,
>
> Andreas, I'm afraid we are talking about different issues - even if they 
> have the same result ;-)
>
> I'll write short summaries about the bugs to make it clear:
>
> a) Bug 218492 ("your" one): fix the patterns so that you can uninstall
>    zmd without trouble
>
> b) Bug 215355 ("my" one): taboo'ing a pattern does not taboo the 
>    contained packages - which is (maybe) technically correct, but very 
>    confusing for users
>
> Please read bug 215355, especially comment #4 and #5.

Ah I see - yes, we have to find ways to improve this in 10.3,


Andreas
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